Prince Adley stepped out of a temporary carriage and was out of the outskirts of the Capital where one of the villas that was abandoned becomes his temporary hideout where he keeps all the necessary information of the plan.

It was close to the capital and so he can immediately go back and forth without people noticing him when he decides to sneak out from the royal guards.

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"What a beautiful day!"

Prince Adley was joyful when he heard the news that a person who looks exactly like Evelyn was seen loitering around in one of the alleys of the slums.

At first he couldn't believe what he heard but after Ishid confirmed it during the meeting at the Royal Palace he became delighted at the sudden news.

"Open it…"

Prince Adley let one of his lackeys take him to where the said Evelyn was. His people kidnapped the Lady after they saw that it was someone who looks exactly like the one they were supposed to abduct four years ago. And the fact that Prince Adley makes them memorize over and over again.

Creaaaak!

The back door opens and Prince Adley walks to where the basement is located outside of the abandoned villa. The vines were enveloping the walls of the house and there's also a moss that was sticking out from the dirty white walls.

The prime of the villa cannot be seen in its exterior but the interior was still diligently clean and kept in it's good condition. One couldn't think that it was really an abandoned house.

"Is it really her?"

Prince Adley asks again to the person who was leading him into the basement.

"Of course, your highness… I witness it on my own."

Ishid also smiles. He was standing in front of Prince Adley and was leading him to the prison cell that they made to accommodate their needs when some important guest like the person that was in right now was staying.

"Really…? Who would have thought that she was still alive?"

They stopped at one of the prison cells and they saw one lady who was crouching in the corner of the room and was trembling profuse;y.

One of Prince Adley's guards was standing there. He looks like an adventurer and one couldn't think that he was an exclusive guard that Prince Adley himself made for the sole purpose of rebelling one day.

Evelyn's sunset eyes were mysteriously glowing inside the dark room. Prince Adley saw this as Evelyn looked up when she heard voices.

"I want to go inside, open this." Prince Adley said so and the guard obeyed him.

Step… step… step…

Heavy footsteps of a man, echoed through the tight walls of the dark cell.

"Let me see you, sister-in-law…" Prince Adley jokingly said.

The torch was lit without incantation and only a snap of a finger was heard and whoosh! A fire instantly made.

Evelyn who was hanging her head low was shocked to learn that someone was like her, someone who can cast a spell without invoking words of incantations.

She wanted to see who it was, but she needed to appear like someone who didn't know them. Because of her curiosity she decided to look up abruptly and talk.

"No… who are you? Why did you do this?"

Evelyn replied and she didn't forget to tremble a little bit and stutter to make them think that she was really afraid. She saw the familiar blue hair that she was once accustomed when Adley was following her around the Academy.

Her peripheral vision also saw a crimson hair that was close to the shade of darkness, something that made her shiver when she encountered him on the backstage of the Competition at the Academy.

"Oho~ it's really the face of the only Lady of the Emsworth."

Evelyn saw that the person who was now looking at her like she was a prey that was about to be eaten by the predator. However, she wasn't fazed by this and just acted appropriately, to let their guard down around her.

'Just enjoy this show because I got you now!!' Evelyn thought.

She tried hard not to smile now that she confirmed that it was them who was behind the people who were putting the statues around the Levingstomne.

"Who are you… wh-why are you doing this?"

The now lit prison lighted up the room and the face of a matured Evelyn who was looking at them with hostility, fear and desperation can be seen reflecting in her eyes. Although her fear of them seems to be dominant.

Prince Adley heard her again.

"Who are you? Why are you doing this to us?"

Seeing this Prince Adley knit his brows and looks back to the guard who has been with her the most.

"What is she saying?"

"I'm sorry, your highness… when we bring her here with that one lady that was lying over there, they keep on telling us that they got the wrong person."

"Your highness?" Evelyn repeated what she heard with a face that was making a reaction that she can't believe what she just heard.

"You are the Prince of this Kingdom? Then, why are you doing this? Let us go!"

Prince Adley and Ishid look at her. They don't know if she was acting or not however her fearful countenance cannot be untrue as it was depicted to the depth of her eyes.

"And who cares if I'm the Prince? I can do whatever I want!"

"How can you do this?! Your evil! You don't deserve that title."

Slap!

Evelyn was slapped hard by Prince Adley. The look on his face was telling Evelyn that he wants her to shut up.

"Don't talk like you know me…" The coldness in his voice was enough for Evelyn to know that she should stop on provoking him.

Prince Adley decided to ignore her and thought that he should look at the girl who was with Evelyn inside the prison. Maybe, he thought that it could trigger Evelyn's attitude and let her true self show.

"Hmmm…"

He cupped the unconscious face of the girl hard who was besides Evelyn and thought that she was familiar.

"No.. no do-don't touch her…!"

"Oh… will you look at that…"

Adley thought that Evelyn would confess and grabbed the orange hair of the lady. She was still unconscious as she was pulled upward using her own hair.

"Please… please! Don't hurt her, Don't hurt her, please. I beg you…!"

Evelyn was still trying her best to act like a damsel in distress. Even though she wants to grit her teeth as she saw what Adley was doing to Cathy.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt her… what I need is you, sister-in-law."

"Sister-in-law? What are you saying? I don't have a husband… And I don't know someone from the Royal Family!"

Adley chuckled at her reply.

Evelyn felt herself cringing on her own words and it sent shivers to her core because of how cringy she thought she was saying this. However her trembling was seen as an act of true horror.

Evelyn's thoughts were cut off because Adley tilted his head as he was looking at Cathy who was one of the contracted spirits of Evelyn.

"I seem to remember this face…" He tilts his head again and looks at Evelyn.

"I think I saw you before with her…" Then, Adley snapped his finger like he remembered where it was.

"Right… I remember I saw her at the Academy… but why is she with you?"

"She's my sister, what are you doing with her?! Don't touch her… please, let us go!!"

Adley becomes confused.

"She's your sister? Is this like a lifetime sworn sister? Something like that?"

"What are you saying?! We're blood related! She's my sister!!" Evelyn decided to yell to turn her maximum acting effectively towards them.

A tear ran down her beautiful face and Adley shot up his eyes. He thought that Evelyn who for the first time after four years was seen by him. He was sure that the lady would be more forceful than she was in their academy days.

Adley stood up and decided to ask Ishid who was standing beside him since earlier.

"What do you think is she saying?"

"I'm not sure, your highness.. However it seems that she can't remember you."

"Right? But how could that be? Is it something that happened four years ago?

"It's possible, your highness… Something occurred that night and this lady beside Lady Evelyn was there or she just found her and decided to feed her with lies."

Ishid was talking about a possible situation about why Evelyn ended up with Cathy.

Evelyn began to act the first time that she deliberately made the enemies notice her.

Adley who doesn't know this has been smirking, thinking that he got an upperhand of the situation and she can use her to his advantage.

While Adley was thinking of ways to make Evelyn the bait. Ishid was looking at her with scrutinizing eyes.

Evelyn felt this but didn't dare look at him. She knew that the man has sharper instincts than Prince Adley.